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kcbernfeld
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 Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: NTFS hard drive issues [Solved] |
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I recently reformatted my master drive, and left my slave formatted as ntfs.
During the installation, I tried to stick exactly to what the doc said. I'm a nervous person.
Now, I'd like to access my second hard drive, but I'm not sure how. I added my partitions (hdb2, 3, 5) to fstab, but I'm not sure about mountpoints. Any help would be appreciated.
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simon_irl
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:41 am Post subject: |
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the second column in fstab *is* the mountpoints, so i'm not sure what you mean about not being sure about them! let's say your second hard disk (hdb) is formatted as one big ntfs partition. your fstab entry would look something like this:
| Code: | | /dev/hdb1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs noauto,user 0 0 |
the "/mnt/ntfs" in this line is the mountpoint...which is just a directory you create, typically under /mnt but really anywhere reasonably sensible. so you could call this /mnt/bdrive or /mnt/windows or /mnt/foo or whatever you like. just create it with mkdir, and then you can mount the drive in it (once your fstab has the appropriate line) as easily as:
the third column tells the system that the drive contains an ntfs filesystem, and the fourth column, "noauto,user" tells it *not* to mount the drive automatically when your system boots, and to allow a regular user (i.e. not just root) to mount the drive manually. if you'd prefer to change this behaviour, by all means do.
will give you all the options. |
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kcbernfeld
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| Ah. Thanks. I meant that I had absolutely no idea what a mountpoint was. |
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